Oct. 30th, 2003

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What would you call him?

If you're talking about the Harvard B-School grad who couldn't make a buck if you gave him two, I would say he's a miserable failure.

If you're talking about the guy who studied real hard for his pee-test, and then got too scared he'd flunk it so he ran away (some might say Deserted), I'd call him a miserable failure.

Now, what miserable failure could I be talking about? This miserable failure?

Only I'm tired so I'm just going to steal Democratic Veteran's post.

oh, dear.

Oct. 30th, 2003 01:05 am
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Is it me, or is this, from Salon, kind of humorous?

Twilight of the dork? Geeks and nerds produced the art and science that define the modern age. But now that everybody's climbing on the dork bandwagon, where's the rage and resentment that fueled their creativity going to come from?
By Ian R. Williams

OK, just maybe reaching a little here, but having known some geeks in my time, offhand I'd say that there's some possibility that they will fuel their rage and resentment by thinking about the fact that they, the geeks and nerds, produced the art and science that define the modern age, and now everybody's climbing on the dork bandwagon.

Also I've known a few to get pretty incandescent over dumbass tech articles in Salon.
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Israel's top-ranking soldier believes that hard-line policies against the Palestinians are working against Israel's strategic interest and contributed to the downfall of the previous Palestinian prime minister, the Israeli media have reported.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was believed to be furious about the comments, attributed to military chief of staff Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon, Israeli television stations reported.

Leading Israeli newspapers carried the comments, attributing them to a senior military official. The media named him as General Yaalon, who made the remarks to Israeli journalists at a briefing on Tuesday.

Nahum Barnea, a leading Israeli columnist with the daily Yediot Ahronot, quoted a military official as saying comprehensive travel restrictions and curfews on Palestinians were harming Israel's overall security.

"It increases hatred for Israel and strengthens the terror organisations," Barnea wrote, quoting the official.

General Yaalon also said that Israel should have eased punitive measures to bolster the fortunes of Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned on September 6 after only four months as Palestinian prime minister.

"There is no hope, no expectations for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, nor in Bethlehem and Jericho," Barnea quoted the military official as saying. "In our tactical decisions, we are operating contrary to our strategic interest."



May we assume that someone whose career has consisted of being shot at on behalf of Israel has Israel's best interests at heart?
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Stephen Glass--the motherfucking scumbag journalist who made up stories for The New Republic--doesn't deserve such a solid biopic as Shattered Glass...
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During a news conference on Tuesday, Bush said that the banner was erected by the ship's crew and that its message referred only to the end of their lengthy tour of duty in the Persian Gulf. "I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from my staff," he said. "They weren't that ingenious, by the way."

But Bush staffers later said the White House had arranged for production of the banner and had OKd its presence on the ship during Bush's visit.

Yesterday, McClellan acknowledged that White House staffers routinely exercise tight control over the environment of a presidential appearance, especially when it will be televised. "Of course, our advance people work closely with people at event sites when the president is participating in an event," he said.

Indeed, the Bush White House has been particularly careful about attending to the details of a televised presidential appearance, said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Maryland's Towson University who specializes in presidential communication strategy. "All of them [presidential staffs] have worked on it, but these people have been especially rigorous about controlling all parts of the event, including the resulting pictures," she said.

But McClellan said Bush had not meant to imply a complete absence of White House involvement in the banner, only that the idea had come from the crew. And he denied that the use of the banner was intended to convey an impression that the overall U.S. mission in Iraq had been accomplished. As for Bush's words, McClellan said he had proclaimed an end to "major combat operations" but had also warned that "there are difficulties that remain and dangers that continue to exist."

An examination of the text of Bush's carrier speech shows that his cautionary comments were largely limited to two sentences: "We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We're bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous." The rest of the lengthy address was a celebration of U.S. military success, with the tone set at the start: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

stuff

Oct. 30th, 2003 04:55 pm
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further Atrios news:

Three of the luminaries at the Corner (the National Review Online "blog") think Luskin is a loon, one because, well, he's acting like a loon; one because he sensibly realizes that if blog libel suits get started, the deep-pocketed and frequently libellous (based on what I'm seeing here - good lord almighty, people read this wankfest?) Corner is a prime target for this kind of thing, and one because he realizes he has no visible means of support once mom loses her shirt to libel judgments (sorry about the image).

In other Atrios news, Mark Kleiman lays out the issues and the Anti Idiotarian Rottweiler (geez, I haven't read him since he decided he was braver than the entire french resistance for sitting through Band of Brothers) covers his ass by agreeing that blog libel lawsuits are a bad thing.

Also, wave your lawsuit in the air like you just don't care over at Pandagon on Friday for Donald Luskin day, and pencil in Luskin is a Stalker Day on Tuesday with Neal Pollack.

On a lighter note )
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This is the very best Hallowe'en in town.

Tons of certified safe swag and candy, craft stuff to do, costumes with no coats and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in continuous loop in the dinosaur theater.
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So let's see - Donald Luskin installed himself as an uninvited (and apparently unwelcome) analyst at The Street, stomped all over the message boards, and then once he pissed James Cramer off he "quit."

Well, that'll show him.

James Cramer.

That is.

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